This textbook will offer an introductory insight into the nature, role, and context of accounting information systems. It will explore how companies integrate a range of technologies into their accounting information systems to assist in the management and control of organisational resources and the maximisation of shareholder wealth. This introductory text, aimed primarily at undergraduate students on specialist accounting-related academic programmes including degrees in Accounting and Accounting and Finance, explores the practical and technical aspects of accounting information systems and considers the social, political, and economic pressures that continue to shape the very nature of such accounting information systems with a practical user-orientated perspective. Each chapter will contain learning objectives, case studies, examples, references, further reading, self-review questions, questions and problems, alongside a glossary and appendix.

Chapter 1: Information systems in accounting and finance: an introduction.- Chapter 2: Systems thinking.- Chapter 3: Control ... by design.- Chapter 4: Accounting information systems and the information age.- Chapter 5: Networking... creating connections.- Chapter 6: Information management and data processing.- Chapter 7: Internal control and accounting information systems security.- Chapter 8: Accounting information systems: a cyclical perspective.- Chapter 9: Accounting information systems: transaction processing cycles (i).- Chapter 10: Accounting information systems: transaction processing cycles (ii).- Chapter 11: Information technology and the virtual world.- Chapter 12: Risk exposure: fraud, cyber terrorism, and computer crime.- Chapter 13: Accounting information systems audit.- Chapter 14: Accounting information systems development.